This poster was created during the civil rights era to promote the boycott of Milwaukee Public Schools and encourage attendance at temporary, alternative schools known as freedom schools. The boycott was part of an effort to desegregate the public...

This folder contains school curricula and schedules for a “Freedom Day School,” to be held in Milwaukee on 18 May 1964. It is part of Helen I. Barnhill collection. Helen I. Barnhill was the executive secretary of the Milwaukee Citizens for...

Silent footage of members of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) protesting busing and de facto segregation. The location is most likely Keefe Avenue Elementary School. Women are forcibly removed by police into a police van.

Silent footage of members of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) protesting busing and de facto segregation. The location is most likely Keefe Avenue Elementary School. Clergy, including Father Groppi, and nuns can be seen. Men...

Material prepared for the special report program summarizing school boycotts and the issue of de facto segregation in Milwaukee. Much of this clip shows integrated high school classrooms; the location is likely Milwaukee's Riverside High School....

Portions of the special report program. Footage includes Freedom Schools at New Hope Baptist Church and St. Mathew C.M.E Church, Lloyd Barbee speaking to an unidentified group, and an interview where Barbee discusses bringing suit in the court of...

Portions of the special report program. Footage includes Freedom Schools of May 18, 1964. Lloyd Barbee discusses the operations and locations of Freedom Day Schools. North Division High School is shown, as well as a Freedom Day School Poster...

Footage of demonstration against school construction at the site of MacDowell School. James Farmer, Lloyd Barbee, Father Groppi are present at the protest. This was the first day that Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) and...

Footage of demonstration against school construction at the site of MacDowell School. James Farmer, Lloyd Barbee, Father Groppi are present at the protest. This was the first day that Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) and...

Correspondence and memos of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC), an organization that worked to end school segregation and racial discrimination in Milwaukee through freedom schools, school boycotts, marches, demonstrations, and...